He was an arse - but a funny one. Don't think he could be replaced and it seems like Hammond and May don't want to do it without him. Personally, it was the chemistry between all three that made the show so funny. I hope the BBC either rehires him - or all three go do a similar show on Sky or something.

This being a thought experiment doesn't protect it from scrutiny - and as I said before, you proposed it and so it is up to you to prove how it would be possible.

Anyway, no idea where you are getting this "outward" force from. If gravity is pulling towards a singularity, then there is no outward force. Just like in a black hole. If it was a sphere, then all the mass would be pulled towards a single point in the center- hence why the center of a large object is so dense. There would be nothing pushing outward - if it did them the object would be unstable. Gravity, from say the northern end of an object wouldn't cross over that from the southern end - both ends counteract and meet at the middle...if one end had a stronger force of gravity, then the structure would warp/break up until the gravity was uniform or stable. Even if you somehow created a hollow sphere in the middle of a planet - it wouldn't be "gravity-less". You might " float" and experience weightlessness as you do in space - but that isn't because there is no gravity - like in space you would still be subject to gravity - just in this case you would "float" at the point of the singularity because gravity is equal in all directions from you center of mass.

If we are going by those from 1960 and prior - from my top 100 list:

Favorites 15 (Order by Age):

• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
• Pandora's Box (1929)
• M (1931)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• Grand Illusion (1937)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Casablanca (1942)
• La Belle Et La Bete (1946)
• Black Narcissus (1947)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• The Bicycle Theif (1948)
• The Third Man (1949)
• Umberto D (1952)

Favorite 15 (Order by Preference):

1. Wild Strawberries (1957)
2. The Seventh Seal (1957)
3. The Apartment (1960)
4. La Strada (1954)
5. La Belle Et La Bete (1946)
6. The Great Dictator (1940)
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
8. On The Waterfront (1954)
9. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
10. Citizen Kane (1941)
11. The Wages of Fear (1953)
12. Pandora's Box (1929)
13. Seven Samurai (1954)
14. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
15. Paths of Glory (1957)

I would assume the same as anyone else with a hobby...

'Gates of Fire' - Steven Pressfield

Can - and have - eaten a whole large pizza.

Tunnel through earth theory has never made much sense to me. If you managed to survive the temps - there should still be gravity pulling from other directions - perpendicular to the tunnel - either collapsing it or pulling the person falling against the side. Even IF you managed to somehow create a hollow sphere in the center of a planet, the walls of which are strong enough to support the mass above, the force of gravity would still pull into a single point.

Just bought a new shelf last weekend...